Play between worlds : exploring online game culture

"In Play Between Worlds, T.L. Taylor examines multiplayer gaming life as it is lived on the borders, in the gaps - as players slip in and out of complex social networks that cross online and offline space. Taylor questions the common assumption that playing computer games is an isolating and alienating activity indulged in by solitary teenage boys. Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), in which thousands of players participate in a virtual game world in real time, are in fact actively designed for sociability. Games like the popular EverQuest, she argues, are fundamentally social spaces."--Jacket.Leer más

1. Finding new worlds --
2. Gaming lifeworlds : social play in persistent environments --
3. Beyond fun : instrumental play and power games --
4. Where the women are --
5. Whose game is this anyway? --
6. The future of persistent worlds and critical game studies.

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T.L. Taylor.

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A study of Everquest that provides a snapshot of multiplayer gaming culture, questions the truism that computer games are isolating and alienating, and offers insights into broader issues of work and play, gender identity, technology, and commercial culture.Leer más

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A fascinating peek into the formal and social architecture that undergirds and shapes the cultural phenomena that is EverQuest. -- Jane C. Park New Media and Society

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